Flock from Martigues the boats with wing-like motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

Get some of the seeds and note the wing-like attachment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

Nobody knows why this fish has such enormous, wing-like fins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories] Reference

Riess presented new, wing-like reconstructions of ichthyosaur fins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no] Reference

But we saw his wing-like banners and we closed and barred the gates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories in Verse] Reference

The elf shrugged, and his wing-like eyebrows flew up towards his scalp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lark And The Wren]

Has developed wing-like pectoral fins that enable it to glide through the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark C. Miller: Holy Mackerel! Amazing Fish Facts] Reference

This becomes apparent when Laurel sprouts a giant wing-like flower on her back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review: Wings by Aprilynne Pike] Reference

Herbert recognized the males by the two wing-like appendages raised on the neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Island] Reference

Two wing-like outer walls, meant to evoke the image of praying hands, give the building its shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [William McDonough, Space Savior] Reference

He is dressed in a silver robe, with strange, wing-like projections fanning out from his shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Against the Japanese Grain] Reference

Her purplish head rippled as she moved and some scientists believed its wing-like form helped her to float.    From Wordnik.com.  [Family Portrait] Reference

Traces of them may occasionally be met with in the form of tubercles or wing-like processes from the column.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

One bike makes it through and one releases these wing-like flaps that raise it up over the top of the cavern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comic-Con 08: Disney Debuts Tron 2 Trailer! « FirstShowing.net] Reference

Between these two wing-like structures was a smaller series of V-shaped towers, each with a large picture window.    From Wordnik.com.  [Temptation] Reference

Wood parenchyma around pores or extending wing-like from pores in late wood, often forming irregular tangential lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of Trees] Reference

The Fine-X also features wing-like doors that open upwards providing access to the front and back seats simultaneously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crazier Cars on Show in Tokyo | Impact Lab] Reference

Tom, Mr. Damon and Mr. Fenwick climbed into the car which was suspended below the gas bag, and between the wing-like planes on either side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Wireless Message: or, the castaways of Earthquake island] Reference

From mouth to commencement of wing-like fin 2.7 inches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1] Reference

The wing-like appendage is probably a time determinative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266.] Reference

Lonny leaned forward in the saddle and elevated his elbows, wing-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roads of Destiny] Reference

The corners of her mouth lifted a little with their wing-like, quivering motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creators A Comedy] Reference

She swept aside her wing-like sleeves to show the Madonna-like lines of her dress.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fountain Sealed] Reference

M. le Maire was a tall man, with a cherubic face made broader by wing-like little whiskers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals] Reference

These wing-like expansions of the cap on the opposite sides of the stem give the spathulate form to the plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference

They bore a resemblance to mechanical birds, and seemed to be sustained and forced ahead by a wing-like action.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Columbus of Space] Reference

Canards are moveable, wing-like structures located near the front of the projectile used to guide the projectile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] Reference

Instead of a tall tower, the turbine is a wide V-shape, with two wing-like aerofoil arms punctuated by perpendicular sails.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Engineer - News] Reference

For example, there are several kinds of domesticated pigeons and fowls, which grow peculiar wing-like feathers on the feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference

These garments differed in color and decoration, but they were alike in one detail-floating, wing-like draperies hung from the shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angel Island] Reference